Science Fiction Trivia

[Disembodied]

Correct! From Flowers for Algernon. Over to you, Kasero!

[Kasero]

Nevada Field, Gobi, the Moon, Vega, the Third Power, Leukemia, Mercant, Haggard, Bull. Some names that can be found in a (huge) series that started in 1961.
Name the main character.

[Lestradae]

Perry Rhodan.

[Kasero]

Correct, it was quite an easy one I think!

Over to you Lestradae

[Lestradae]

OK ... I'll try something difficult.

Which TV series had something that could be interpreted as a crossover with Babylon 5, and has been interpreted as such but never explicitly stated by this shows makers, the crossover being an appearance of something very akin to Babylon 5's hyperspace in that series (which is and stays unique there), and a species that might be from Babylon 5.

Name the series, the two episodes, and the species

[Selezen]

Series: Space Cases
Episodes: "There all the Honor Lies" (B5) and "Who Goes Where" (Space Cases)
Race: The Straczyn
?

[Lestradae]

No, it's not Space Cases.

[Lestradae]

Ok, have to help, it's an obscure one.

The episodes in question are the cliffhanger episodes from the second to the third series of the show in question, and the heroes' journey depicted in it is a really long one, even for that show.

[Selezen]

Andromeda, episodes "Tunnel at the End of the Light" and "If the Wheel Turns" seem to have a plot that's about right, but I can't identify the alien species as one obviously from B5. The closest I can come is Brakiri or one of the Shadow races. And hyperspace (dimensional tunnel) is the wrong colour.

Darn, this is frustrating - B5 is my favourite show and I wasn't even aware there was another crossover apart from the Space Cases one.

The Lurker's Guide seems to know nothing about it. Even my Google-fu is failing.

[Lestradae]

Andromeda is not it

I deliberately chose a really obscure example that would be un-google-able as you probably need to have seen both series to recognise it. I remember seeing the crossover and - after about the first episode in, so much was going on in that story at once - thinking "waaait a minute" suddenly.

But something in your first sentence about the races is getting close

Hope I didn't put up a question I will have to resolve myself

[Selezen]

I crave clues, dahling, clues!!

[Lestradae]

La Croix?

Will think of something cluelike to write tomorrow

Good night

L

[Kasero]

And think that poor myself, not english-speaking native, have to work twice as hard to find an answer

[Commander McLane]

And think that poor myself, not english-speaking native, have to work twice as hard to find an answer

That's kind of fair, though, because Lestradae is also not an english-speaking native. So he had to work twice as hard to find the question first.

[Smivs]

And think that poor myself, not english-speaking native, have to work twice as hard to find an answer

That's kind of fair, though, because Lestradae is also not an english-speaking native. So he had to work twice as hard to find the question first.

That's one of the great things about this community - we've evolved a sort of collective babel-fish!